Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News?
The rise and prospects of hyperlocal journalism

Credits

Citizen Media:
Fad or the Future of News?

The rise and prospects
of hyperlocal journalism

    - By Jan Schaffer     - J-Lab Executive Director

Read news release:
CitMedia Sites are Here to Stay

Special thanks to The Ford Foundation for its support of this research.

Thanks to reporter Susan Brenna for her in-depth interviews and reporting;  to Jeff Olson of ShowofHands.com for helping to design and field the online survey; and to
J-Lab’s Craig Stone and Katie Aulwes for all their copyediting, web production and publishing help.

(c) 2007
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism
Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park